Chương 64: Trail of the soul shaker

Bai Yun smiled at the two of them. Before he had left he had left them a letter gave them some work to do. He had asked to follow up on some information and also to look into a few thins for him.

"What did you find out about the soul shaking orb?" He asked the couple.

Bai Yun had never forgotten about the soul shaking orb that he found in his memories when he woke up. It was the soul shaking orb that caused him to wake up in the current life. And there was no question that it was intentional. It meant that that there was an enemy who was aiming for his life that he did not know about.

It was true that he could tell his family and ask them to investigate but there was a problem. He was attacked by the soul shaking orb while he was inside his families mansion. This meant that whoever attacked him must be someone on inside the mansion. Thus he was reluctant to mention it to them lest the wrong person earn of it.

He could trust his parents, and maybe even old Hai, but he was afraid that they may chose to trust in the wrong person. Bai Yun was not worried for his safety, if there was someone who was determined to kill him, then them knowing about the fact that he remembered the soul shaking orb would not change much. He was more concerned whether the people behind it would hide.

"There was no soul shaking orbs sold at auction in the city in the last few months. The latest one we found was sold almost four years ago." Bai Ling-er replied.

Bai Yun frowned when he heard of this. He was hoping to find a clue to the soul shaking orb, but he as not too optimistic about it anyway. A powerful dao step soul cultivator could make it, and it could also be purchased from outside the city and brought in. But if Bai Yun was planning something like this, he would not do the first thing. There was a possibility that some remnants of the soul shaking orb could be left behind, and that could lead his parents to the perpetrator. If he was doing so, the most efficient way was to buy one from far away or under a proxy, or steal one. So he had asked them if there was a soul shaking orb sold recently, in the hopes that he could find a clue. After all they were incredibly rare, and thus easy to track.

"But we did find a rumor." Bai Ling-er continued. " Since you told us to focus on businesses bringing item from outside the city, we thought of looking into the black market."

Bai Yun looked at them quizzically when he heard Bai Ling-er. He did not ask them to look into the black market as it could be incredibly dangerous and they did not have the strength to protect themselves.

Seeing the look on Bai Yun's face, Bai Lin-er started to explain. "It seems you don't know much about the black market. Let me ask you a question. When you kill an enemy, and their item end up in your arms, and you have no use for them, what will you do?"

Bai Yun thought for a minute and then replied. "Wouldn't you just have to sell them. Or if its impossible, then throw it away."

"But it is not easy to sell the items. The major forces have very vast information networks, and they will not allow businesses to publicly sell anything stolen from their people. And no businesses would want to antagonize any of the major forces. Thus the black market stepped in to to fill the role. Not only do they take sketchy items, they also usually move them great distances so as to make it that much more harder to track. As a result, you only usually get half of what you can get if you sell the same item to an open business, if that." Bai Ling-er explained.

"And about four months ago, there was a rumor going around that a soul shaking orb was being sold in the black market. Specifically the Crescent moon organization. But there is no way for us to confirm it. They don't share records of their transactions. Its one of the reason that they could last for so long. Otherwise the major forces would definitely destroy them. After all, pretty much all of the top leaders have sold stuff there at least once before." Bai Shi finished.

Bai Yun thought for a moment. "Tell me abut the Crescent Moon organization." He asked them.

"The Crescent Moon is a large organisation that has its fingers in many pies. They are divided into many different parts, but there are three main ones. They are the Full Moon wing, which deals with the stolen and other shady items, the New moon which is the biggest intelligence broker on the continent and Blood Moon, the assassination wing. Each of them act mostly independent of each other, but they are all part of the same organisation." Bai Ling-er explained.

"Explain to me how the Blood Moon wing operates." Bai Yun immediately asked. If he wanted to infiltrate them, he neither had the time or skills to join up with the other two wings. But with the Legacy of the Assassin God, he could definitely be a terrifying Assassin.

"The Blood Moon is divided into two sections, the inner and outer sections. The outer section is made up freelance assassins, while the inner sections consists of assassins they have trained from a young age, or people that have sworn a blood oath to them. It is incredibly difficult to join the inner section, but the outer section is modeled after the Hunter's Union. One can join up with them and take missions for pay. As you accomplish more and more missions, your ranking in the organisation goes up." Bai Shi explained.

"Are you thinking of going inside the Blood Moon organisation." Bai Lin-er interjected. " I thought you might try that when I remembered your appearance changing ability, but it would be pointless. The soul shaking orb is a rare item. I read a lot, but I hadn't heard of it until you told me about it. Even then I could find out very little about it. And it is very powerful too. Which means that you would have to reach a very high level of both strength and authority before you could find out about it. Considering that this is a dao item, this would take decades, maybe even centuries."

Bai Yun thought about this for a while. They had made a valid point. He would have to get a high position in the organisation before he could access the relevant documents. By the time he could get access to that information, even if the soul shaking orb that he was attacked with was the one from the Crescent moon organisation, all the other tracks of the attack would be long gone.

"I think the best thing to do would be to inform someone else. There is only so much that we can do before we hit a wall." Bai Shi said.

Bai Yun knew that they were right. There was not much he could do. He had waited this long to learn about the people around him, and to see if could trust them. And also to see if he would get lucky and get a lead on the soul shaking orb. But it was time to hand the matter over to his parents.

"Alright." Bai Yun relented. There was not the option he had in mind, but under the circumstances, this was the only one he could follow.

There was nothing much to discuss after this. He had given them a task to see how they would do, and it seemed as if they had done well. After catching up on some general matters that took place recently, he decided to leave for the night.

Just as he was about to leave, he stopped. "Take these techniques. They might be of some help to you. Oh, it would be best if you destroy the technique books after you mastered them." He said as he tossed two techniques to the two of them.

These were two techniques he had created during his retreat. One was a sword technique while the other a movement technique. During the retreat, Bai Yun had tried to incorporate the movement technique he had created in his past life with that of the the of the Assassin God's movement technique. He also tried to create a sword technique tailored to him based on the Sword Dao. But he was completely unsuccessful.

But during his efforts he ended up creating this new sword technique and movement technique. As far as Bai Yun was concerned they were sub par, and even the Moonlight Sword that he modified using the sword dao was stronger than the sword technique he created. After all this was his first attempt to create a technique that could be used at the qi step.

But Bai Yun was without question the greatest genius of his time. The reason he was able to break all records in cultivation was due to the Seamless Body constitution he was born with, and also his terrifying comprehension abilities. After all he was the only person to master the Six Truths of the Sword God and he did it only thirty thousand years, a tiny fraction compared to the million years that went into creating it.

Technique were ranked on the efficiency of their qi. When a technique was launched, some of the qi was used to create the effect of the technique, like the attacking power of a sword technique, or the movement connected to a movement technique and so on. The rest of the energy was either wasted or used to balance or keep the technique active.

The techniques were ranked one to ten based on the efficiency of qi. Rank one meant that a maximum of ten percent of the qi was used for the technique while more than ninety percent was wasted. Rank two was ten to twenty percent and so on. As the rank of a technique increased, the power released for the same qi went up explosively. A rank ten technique was one which used more than ninety percent of the qi, but not one hundred percent. And if a technique used one hundred percent of the qi used, it was called a grand technique. Grand techniques were in a completely different league of strength compared to ranked techniques. Even the Assassin God's movement technique was only rank ten at the current stage.

Normal members of the clan only had access to rank one or two techniques. The techniques that he had chosen from the clan library were only rank six or seven. Though during the retreat he upgraded the Moonlight Sword to rank nine, and the other two techniques to rank eight.

And the techniques he just gave were both rank seven techniques.

So even though Bai Yun thought of these two techniques as sub par, they could still be considered as among the strongest techniques in the world. So he thought of leaving this to the two of them to train in. After all if they got stronger, it would also help him.

The two of them were astonished when they received the two techniques from Bai Yun. But as they did not know of the true value of the techniques, they only thought that these were ordinary techniques. And as even Bai Yun was unaware of the true value of these techniques, he did not explain it to them either. It would take many years before they learned the truth.

Bai Yun returned to his room, and slept. When he woke up, he left to find his parents.

It was time to tell them the truth of what happened back then.

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